But he is still refusing to sign the bill, on the grounds that it will offend religious sensibilities and divide opinion at a time when the government needs to preserve a consensus to push through economic measures.

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Two curiously named recipients of fervent online buzz converge on a single stage Friday: Click the link above to hear Black Kids and Does It Offend You, Yeah? perform at WXPN and World Cafe Live.

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The test will be how much of a reduction can be achieved in the rate at which prisoners re-offend within 12 months.

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Their approach may offend some people, but they said at the start they are not trying to do that or pick on anyone - they are trying to help.

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This treatment will be, at best, highly selective so as not to offend several sources of a significant part of that danger.

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Written by "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David, who returned to the show just to write the final episode, the series finale offered a look back at many of the people the four had managed to insult and offend over the last nine years.

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If you look at the history of this planet, you will see cycles of creation and destruction that would offend our morality as human beings.

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Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.

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